In San Diego for the weekend, I just took my first ever segway tour and loved it! The 2.5-hour tour of downtown San Diego would have felt much longer and duller on foot, but on the segway you got to enjoy the journey itself, coz these little machines are fun to operate. Lean forward and you pick up speed; lean backwards and you slow down. The only time you have to be cautious is when you’re going over uneven surfaces. The rest of the time, you have all the rights of a pedestrian – just an accelerated one.
Turns out, segway tours are mushrooming in cities all over the world, and Canada and Israel are no exception. In the home of the Maple Leaf, you can segway through the West Edmonton Mall (though I have to wonder why you would want to segway through a mall…), through Toronto’s distillery district downtown and through Ontario’s Horseshoe Valley, along the trails of the Copeland Forest. In Israel you can take a segway across Jerusalem, through the botanical gardens, around the Knesset and rose gardens. You can also segway through Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
One place it appears you cannot segway is in my hometown of Vancouver, where these green machines are barred from the road and considered too wide for the sidewalk. That’s too bad, cuz with its sea wall and wonderfully distinct downtown neighbourhoods, segway tours would go down well in Vancouver.
For a directory listing of segway tours worldwide, check out this site. And if you ever have the choice of walking, biking or segwaying on a city tour, choose the segway, hands down. It really brings out the fun in the tour.
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